As part of the one day event
STOKEFEST: "boxed"
in Clissold Park, Stoke Newington, London
on 15th of june 2003:
"those lost and found":
"Proposing a place, a dedicated space for lost objects to be seen, looked for, found and left.
With a play of ‘meant to be’ and ‘mis-placed’, playing with a description of what you might be looking for or have lost and want to find, a functioning of such ‘lost property setup’ that moves between its designated efficiency and an irony of purpose."
Marked out on the ground in the park, a grid provides the layout for a large flattened display of objects, as they might be in a functioning ‘lost property office’. Numbered and named, their description and labeling is a way of shifting between the actual set up of a lost property office and its designated function and a more undefined accumulation of left, lost, discarded objects that might not be important in value or importance, but ‘exhibited’ in a purposeful arrangement.
[those lost and found] visually exsists as an Installation, and takes on the traces of the day, remaining somewhere between being a real collecting point of lost or found property, where the things displayed might be read, examined and exchanged by audience and visitors on the event.
This piece is part of "BOXED" (a collection of artists showing site-specific work in designated areas within Clissold Park). There will also be a map and information point for BOXED on the day.
BOXED
Sunday June 15th. 12- 6pm. Free entry.
Somewhere within the HIDEOUS brochure for the otherwise excellent StokeFest there's an easily missable page about an event that should be fairly extraordinary. "BOXED" is curated by Regitze Bondesen of the KIOSK PROJECT and Fiona Fieber: 16 artists present 12 art works of varying descriptions that will exist for the one day in Clissold Park, all inspired by and in response to the word BOXED. Highlights include a short performance piece by ROTOZAZA called PUNTA 1 which involves performers who haven't rehearsed being told what to do via recorded cd playback. The audience is apparently about 100 metres away from the actors who mix with the public in this busy park - a kind of plugged-in "Where's Wally"! BORG AND BECK - aka Ollie Bown [the other half of ICARUS] and Fred Labbé - are showing some wonderfully lo-fi music machines that have just been on show at Manchester's Cornerhouse Gallery. BRITT HATZIUS characteristically injecting subtle wonder into the tiny banalities of our everyday - has taken over a disused bowling green and is creating an enormous "lost property grid" for the hundreds of odds and ends left behind in the park every day. Other artists include Sophie Buxton, Charlie Danby, Sumer Erek, Exceeda, Jason Graham, Abigail Jones, Odelia Lavie, Trine Olrik, Bettina Reiber, Rob Smith, Jason Synnott and Jessica Wallwork. "
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directions: bus 73, get off on Stoke Newington Church Street just after Albion road roundabout.